Improved harness-buckle



UNITED ,STATES .PATENT DFFICE.

ALMA EEDFoED, oF coLDwATEE, MICHIGAN.v

IMPROVED HARNESS-BUCKLE.

`Specification, forming part of Letters Patent N0. 103.128, dated May17, 1670; antedated i. l May 5,1870.

To a/Zlwhom it may concern.: Be it known that I, ALMA BEDFORD, of

Goldwater, in the county of Branch and State of Michigan7 have inventedcertain new and usefulImprovementsinLoopHarness-Buckles;

and `I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof,

reference `beingl had to the accompanying drawings, making part of thisyspecication,

` e and to the `letters of reference marked thereon, like lettersindicating like parts wherever they o ccur.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use my invention, Iwill proceed to describe it.

i My invention relates to loop harness-buckles; and it consists inconstructing the bar of the buckle with a fiat rear extension, for thepurpose of preventing the buckle from turning on the strap to which itmay be attached, and also in providing the under side of the loop withlips or projections, to extend on the under side of strap-connection.

` In the drawings, Figure lis a top plan View. Fig.` 2 is across-section on theline ma of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3-isa longitudinalsection on thev line y y of Fig. l.

As is well known, the loop harness-buckle is ordinarily constructed witha single round cross-bar, to whichthe tongue is loosely attached, andabout which the strap is passed for being fastened. Buckles of thiskind, when so connected to .the strap, frequently turn on their'point ofconnection, when the loop end, 'being tilted up. allowsthe reins orother loose straps about the harness to catch under it.

. rIo furnish aloop-buckle that, when at` y tached will not turn onits'point of vconnection is the object of my invention. This Ido bymaking the' `crossbar of the buckle of a peculiar form, and by attachinglipsor projections to the under side of theloop. `I construct my buckleA in the usual manner, and out of any'suitable materials.

The front end of its frame may be circular, yas

shown in Fig. l, or partly so, or square, as desired. Its rear end Imake square, and surmount it with the loop C, having its top beveled, asshown in all the figures.

tachingthe tongue D, and also with holes b, for the thread Vto passthrough which binds together the upper and lower side of the strappassing about the cross-bar B, for connecting the buckle, as the iiatextension of the bar B in this waycomes inthe fold of 4the strap aboutthe bar, and as the strap is to be fastened to it, it is obvious that,when so fastened, the buckle cannot turn, but will be'held in adirectline with the strap to which it is fastened.

To the under side of the loop C, Iform projections c, as clearly shownin Fig. 2, so arranged as to catch under the strap when con- -nected tothe cross-bar of the buckle, and

thus to hold the buckle in directline with the strap andprevent it fromturning. y

The advantages of a loop harness -buckle thus constructed 'are obvious.The cross-bar,

with its fiat rear extension, as well as the lips under the loop, servesto hold the buckle always in line with the strap to which it may beconnected, and in the construction of the buckle the tongue is always inthe center, and cannot get 4outgof place in the turning process, as isso often the case when there is nothing to keep it in its properposition.

Having thus described my invention, what I A Its `cross' barlB, I makewtha ilat extension, a, pro. lvided in its center with an opening foraty

